Unsound Advice Quotes

No vice is so bad as advice.

[Referring to Herbert Hoover:] That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years—all of it bad.

The best information from the leading medical and health scientists and experts in the country was dead wrong.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

The fact that a man is driven back on feelings and instincts to justify an action or course of action which he has thought over and discussed, is good evidence that what he calls his feelings and instincts are at variance with his better judgment … and may therefore be worthless or dangerous guides in any wider matter involving the fate of his country or his fellow-countrymen.

The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid.

Evil counsel travels fast.

Quite frankly, anything you have you will be told is detrimental or is an asset by whomever you run into, and in the end, you can't listen to anybody about anything.

[Political] prophets of doom, like physicians who smoke, often do not believe in their own prophecies.

One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that told us we should invade Iraq and that house prices never decline may have been out of the box, but it put us into the ditch. We have been badly misled by people who persuaded us that they understood things we didn't.

I don't advocate any child following in their parent's footsteps when their parent's footsteps are as crooked as mine are.

A fool and his words are soon parted.

No enemy is worse than bad advice.